Database reliabilty during the holiday season

Retail systems performance during the holiday season can make or break the relationship VARs have with their retail customers. As the peak season approaches, there are certain aspects of the system that should be fine tuned. Once the season hits VARs should leave them alone.

What strategies can VARs implement for a client who is a retailer and has to keep their system up during the Holiday season?

In the Holiday shopping season uptime and optimal performance are critical. These are a few recommendations that VARs can make to ensure that no system failures occur.

Most major retail outlets should go into a lock down mode just prior to the Holiday season. All development ceases weeks before and patches deployment is deferred until the Holiday season is over. Nothing new is added to the system which might result in any downtime or performance degradation. This ensures that any bugs should have manifested themselves prior to the lockdown period and have been fixed, and no new bugs have being introduced by new development.

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